Meeting of Young Researchers in the Earth Sciences
Heat, Helium, Hotspots, and Whole Mantle Convection
La Jolla CA (August 12 - 15, 2004)

Workshop documents

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The Earth Sciences
a haiku by James Kellogg

If not primitive - what ?
If not 670 - where ?
If not primordial - how ?
If not us - who ?

Here are some documents we provide that originated in the first workshop of the Meeting of Young Researchers in the Earth Sciences (myres.org) community effort, which was held from August 12 - 15, 2004, in La Jolla CA on the campus of UC San Diego. Click here to see a bunch of pictures from the meeting.

Here's a list of documents that you might find helpful.

Papers and projects arising from MYRES-I

If you have pubslished or written a proposal based on discussions during MYRES-I, please let us know!

Meeting writeup and call for proposals

We have published a meeting write-up, call for proposals and agenda for the AGU and EGU townhall meetings describing how we intend to move on from MYRES-I to EOS Trans. AGU. You can read a PDF reprint here. This is a much modified version from what we intended to publish, you can read the PDF manuscipt here. You decide.

In your own words. What participants had to say

Here are a few general comments on the meeting (for the full exit evaluation click here)

"Poster sessions worked well. I got some great feedback on my work that I'm in the process of converting to a manuscript.", "I really enjoyed the key note lectures!", "I'll tell my peers to apply next time if the subject is appropriate", "Food-terrible", "Was worth my while and really enjoyed this for the most part", "This conference exceeded my expectations in terms of the amount of material I learned and was able to communicate", "As a Ph.D. student it was a good opportunity to think about big ideas", "Excellent meeting, no doubt this should be continued", "Haven't learnt this much at a meeting in years, and the confident productive collaborations can come out of this", "It was a very well organized and I found it generally an excellent idea", "Keep the meeting".

Things people particularly liked:

"Multi-disciplinary interactions", "Meeting people. Establishing contacts for future research", "Learned about new ideas for mantle structure/melting that have affected the way I think about mantle reservoirs", "Being able to interact with people in other disciplines @ similar points in their academic career", "To be a scientifically diverse community", "Easy contact and discussions in a friendly atmosphere", "Lectures", "Learning more about noble gas geochemistry", "Getting a better understanding about constraints from other fields or research", "Community development and re-invigoration", "Meeting intelligent, friendly scientists", "Shijie's talk!", "Talk to other researchers and persue future collaborations."

Things participants wanted to see changed:

"The FORUM, needs to be better focused", "Having a more multidisciplinary leadership/steering in the forum", "More free/social time to talk about non-science or to do your own thing", "The food", "Reduce time given to forums and increase small group meeting times", "More structured discussion (in the large groups)."

Lecture slides and program

For a brief program description including lecture syllabi as PDF or HTML follow these links. Below you find links for the lecture slides from our keynote speakers, in PDF format unless indicated otherwise. These documents reflect a lot of effort from the lecturers and were kindly provided for personal use. We would like to ask you to inquire before using this material for purposes other than personal education, and please reference the source properly.

Abstract volume

We also provide this PDF Abstract Volume for MYRES-I which contains abstracts of those poster presentations for which we received abstracts from participants. We didn't require poster presentations, but rather offered the opportunity to informally discuss your research in two evening sessions.

Outcome of disciplinary group discussions

Part of the afternoon discussions at MYRES were dedicated to ~8 small groups that met for ~2 hours before everybody reconvened in the evening FORUM. Those groups had an inter-disciplinary setup for the first three days, and then reconvened as disciplinary groups on the closing day. The final tasks for the groups were to identify the major challenges and opportunities in their field, identify weak and strong constraints (things to hang your hat on, scales, and uncertainties), and point to future avenues of collaborative research.

We have unedited versions of the presentations from each group as PDFs:

Proposal slides

The multi-discplinary groups were initially asked to present proposals that could substantially advance our understanding of the heat transport/style of convection problem during the next five years. We later refined and condensed those proposals.

The initial group proposals were as follows:

We used the last day's FORUM discussion to refine and condense the proposals that were produced by the working groups earlier in the week. The main themes we agreed on were

  • length scales of heterogeneity, specifically ways to test the plum pudding extracting model
  • upper mantle/tectosphere dynamics and the effect of water
  • slabs in the lower mantle/style of subduction
  • plumes
  • lower mantle dynamics
Preliminary documents:

Glossary

We are in the process of compiling a glossary of important terms and lingo. You can obtain a PDF file with the terms we intend to explain. Let us know if your favorite unclear concept isn't in there.

Other notes and documents from the meeting

Exit evaluation

We are in the process of evaluating our exit survey to figure how we were doing and what changes to the format should be made. You can download a PDF of a preliminary report, including the average and standard deviations of the 50 answers from our exit survey. This document also lists all comment by participants as to the best and worst aspects of the meeting. We also provide the raw data as an Excel spreadsheet.

Sponsors

MYRES-I was made possible through funding from the US National Science Foundation and the attendance of European researchers was supported by the European Science Foundation. On-site support was provided by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California, San Diego.
Thanks to all involved!
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